Kindness-Unkindness

Man's inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn. (Robert Burns)

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. (G K Chesterton)

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. (William Hazlitt)

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. (W Somerset Maugham)

I must be cruel, only to be kind. (Shakespeare)

Love compels cruelty to those who do not understand love. (T S Eliot)

Savagery is necessary every four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization. (Edmound and Jules de Goncourt)

Kindness effects more than severity. (Aesop)